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Plot: A Complete Guide to Constructing Stories That Work

Plot is not a sequence of events. It is a chain of causes. The difference is small on the surface and everything underneath it. The king died and then the queen died is a sequence. The king died and then the queen died of grief is a plot. That single addition changes what the reader experiences from a record of things that happened into a story that means something. Causality is the mechanism behind every plot that has ever kept a reader up past midnight.

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Tripen
6 days ago
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